Crowley Vale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Crowley Vale

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A total reliance on private cars defines Crowley Vale, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This is a highly mobile area, though it remains very disconnected from the public transport networks found across Queensland.

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📍 Crowley Vale, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here owns a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households with no vehicle. Most residents have multiple cars, with 93.9% of homes owning two or more.

Motor vehicles per home

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Crowley Vale splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 4 or more at 29%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 34.1% of workers doing so—far above the Queensland figure of 14.1%. Other workers rely almost entirely on driving, as 0% of the population commutes via public transport.

34.1%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 34.4%
  • 2021: 34.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.

How people get to work

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In Crowley Vale, Car (driver) is the majority at 55%; Worked at home is next at 45%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, which is far below the Queensland average. This means no one in Crowley Vale can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 60 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas, and the drive to the city typically takes 55 minutes.

60

Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

55

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
  • Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Crowley Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30757/crowley-vale/topic/transport